Source Department of General Surgery, Baskent University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.

PURPOSE: We investigated the prognostic factors affecting recurrence including Ki-67 among patients who underwent liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: The 50 patients with a diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma and cirrhosis included those with expanded criteria for hepatocellular carcinoma excluding subjects with major vascular invasion and metastases but not taking into account tumor size and number of tumor nodules.